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r t fait t'aiic Lifestyle riimnc Section W Sunday, March 18, 1984 Page FOOD 0 ANN LANDFRS W-1- W- - 1 1 Tribune Staff Photos by Tim Kelly silk organdy for rainwear but his facotvorite seems to be double-faceon the ton poplin, cream-coloreoutside, gray inside The real fashion news for this season, however, is in the new fab rics used in rainwear that are lightd d start wearing them again By Carolyn Monson Tribune Fashion Editor The bad news is that spring rains are coming The good news is it's time to reach for a raincoat Women have been collecting raincoats for years They're extremely practical They pack They are easy to carry with a trusty umbrella and they add just enough of a layer to keep what s underneath dry and the wearer warm What's more, they never go out of style Let's face it You wear a raincoat all summer and through November (longer when you consider they are just the right weight and offer the roomy interior necessary for wearing over a suit jacket) Then you m March In years past, raincoats for women have been available in a basic 10 all tan and taupe Last colors year's newest color on the rainy horizon was a dazzling grape The new season's offerings have undergone a dose of fresh design styling as well as color, and the freshness has filtered down to attractive drizzle wear for tomorrows women Dessert of Line Susan Warshaw, owner of The Brown-EyeSusan in Salt Lake City, prefers shopping for her stores clothing at the smaller manufacturers where she considers buying only what she calls the dessert of a line That where she found these sweet Eva Rose coats for little girls In the $60 range, the lightweight, cotton, poplin coats are completely reversible with just a hint of inside d color showing on the outside Colors include navy to cream and red to gray. It is the coat s yoked back that draws the interest and constitutes charm Theres enough extra fabric gathered to the yoke to create a cirwide enough to produce a cle flare when the wearer does a twirl Lots of Wear Though the little coats will get lots of wear, considering there are two sides to the coat plus their value coat as well as rainas a dress-uwear, an older woman's raincoat is apt to enjoy the ultimate in staying there's no chance that she power will outgrow it This season, designers seem to be showing the same enthusiasm for the raincoat as the woman who owns one Calvin Klein, who likes to see his poplin raincoat over linen pants, has focused on thin fabric One of his raincoats can be worn as a dress Designer Geoffrey Beene has used p weight, but topped with rubberlike materials to make them impervious to rain," said Betsy Balch fashion coordinator for Nordstrom The coats resemble a crossing guard's shiny slicker and are merely wiped off with a damp cloth when splashed with mud or dotted with raindrops Color the coats cheerful guard yellow and summer sky blue The yellow trench coat shown here is by Ilie Wacs and sells in the $300 category Belted, trench style and featuring epaulettes, the coats color exudes sunshine Jean Galles coat, in the $250 range, has the option of being worn tightly belted at the waist, or allowed to swing free without a belt The synthetic coat is lined and features a back pleat Religious people are losing their fear of laughing By Tom Webb Kmght-Ridde- r Newspapers WICHITA Kan - "Did you hear the one about the Catholic priest and the Jewish rabbr" Of course weve heaid it Everyone has heard it or one like it There is a veritable Noahs flood of religious jokes floating around the country, and has been for decades Religious humor provides one measure of how the world looks at faith and the church For better or worse, many church members have turned away from the somber stern aspects of religious faith, clergy agree, although the faithful still are not likely to hear many jokes from the pulpit Across the spectrum, liberal to conservative religious people are losing their fear of laughing There is still a place for quiet and solemn reflection, they sav but there is a place for humor too Religious jokes must number in the tens of thousands and they have remarkable staving power Thev ve outlived elephant jokes and worn en s lib jokes and will probably be around after the real men and dead cat jokes have faded away Frequently they sound like this one now going around ject of, or at least the vehicle for, so many jokes "Perhaps it is because religion is such a sensitive topic, and it deals with issues that matter most to peomore so even than politics," ple Tim Miller, a lecturer in religious studies at the University of Kansas, theorizes "I suppose it's because religion is just about the most widespread cultural thing in America "We re exposed to it all the time y l l. 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Frequently, 'W til yes St Tetei ad in it teil u e ha re lots of j imi het s up heie He s the fit st lau yet fl i r had Wtiv is out ueie ichgious faith the sub religious humor stresses the faithful themselves -people who are trying so mightily to be godly, usually ending up being so, well, human A lot of time, humor in the Christian faith does poke fun at your foibles and concentrates on a weakness or a fault ' said Robert Moser, pastor of Wichita's Grace Presby-teraChurch n A nsitor uas tounno ttntral Kansas First he neat to north iscuton anti .found nothuui but 'I hen he went to Mennonites Hillsboro mid apain found only Mennonites Same thmp at (ioes-se- l So he walked into a Menno-n- i te chart h I m sick of Mennonites," he complained 1 want to po some-plat- e uhere there a rent any Mennonites ' ' the Why don t you po to hell Theie me pastor 'e pi led Mennonites there room The pi eat her omplmned to St Ieter that he hail led a pood life aud uas entitled to a topper Hut hear that it took su break prounti at Oral Roberts Cnn ersity Yeah ei ery time they made a hole, it was Did you weeks to healed f preat her ami a Liu per died and went to hem en 7 he la it ei nos ossif tied a spumous suite the treat her pot a era taped little IJOtll dings, funerals and holidays Religious humor often stresses those things that are unique to faith, such as heaven and hell, miracles or divine intervention no It is somewhat ironic that so many religious jokes are floating says Grcgoiy Robbins, assoc lalt professor of religion at Wichita State Universitiy 'Frequently hit mor is a way people can dispel the seriousness and allow some fresh air' into serious matters On any given wee kcid 80 to 100 mil lion people go to t hurch - that s more than watch football on TV " Even to the most casual observ- ers religious faith plass u in life s key moments i a major wed around because although Christians are known historically for many things a sense of humor is pn ttv far down the list Jews tend to fare t on siderably better here it is genet ally agreed think it s true that a number ol i tuirehes don t have much humor 1 said John Carmody, an adjunct pro fessor of religion at Wichita State Because parts of the message are serious, I think there's a temptation to take oneself as seriously as the message Many Christians both pastors and lay people, find this strange John Gifford, pastor of Bethel Life Center Assembly of God in the Wichita area is among them Christians ought to bo the happi est people there are " Gifford main tains We've come to layer a lot of culture on top of Christianity that sort of stifles it We (at Bethel) have the feeling that church ought to be joyful and sometimes funny We have a lot of fun at church " The key, he says is to strike a good balance For example, ' I seldom seize on anv humorous moments during funerals ' Others feel that there is a place for humor but not in church I don t use jokes," said one priest I just dont feel comfoi table with that 'Whenever Im in church, I just don t feel that s appropriate Outside the church, in other activities it might have a place Catholic priest ami a born-apapreat her i cere out polhnp The priest was hittinq beautiful shots all day uhde the ireathe teas st atteiiup his shots all oi t r the course .After nine holt s the hoi a pa n preat her limit d to his po If fiartncr anti tit mamled to kn u ins sttrtt Weh it plied the Catholic prit si u en u e Catholu s nay u t ket p our heads dim n In America the New England Iu ritan tradition is given much cridil or blame for the sombei Protest, ml outlook The Puritans were notably A n-- ,' sour in their religion' says Miller the Kansas University professor 'They were incredibly serious They had a real sense of the awfulness of hell' You don t find that trait much anymore Moser of Grace Presbyterian, is like many pastors who will frequently toss a joke or two into a sermon Yet pastors have discov ered that while a lot of people enjoy humor in church a number of people don t "There s a whole group of people at Grace church who leally believe that the Christian faith is too serious to joke about ' Moser said e Presbyterians had such a Old-lin- reputation for formal worship Moser said, that they were jokingly known as God s frozen chosen In Sunday school a Irlt pin was asked u here Cod !i .s ' In our bathroom slit lepaed " mu tather Fiery onmorninp the door ami says pounds God are you still in 'lone And its not just Pi ott stunts who think religion is not a subject ot hu mor In 1980 a Roman Catholic Chi cago priest discussed ichgion and humor on his television program One of the guests was Don Novello who fiequently appeals on 'Saturday Night Live playing the character h ather Guido Sarducci purportedly the gossip columnist fot the Vatican s newspaper But the Archdiocese of Chicago found the ha' Jucci c hat oc 'or offen sive and in tffec t kill o tfu show He learned the hard wi. that n xing religmr and humor an be c ijrismgly dangerous wrote Joel ells a Catholic satirist who was Vkhen it ,i s i a guest on the show i. r es u religion an fin, g that 6, t olumn 1 Page s e m t Kr. rw i |
